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Example 56-1
Nou griy nou kafe.
Nou
1pl
griy
roast
nou
poss
.
1pl
kafe.
coffee
We roasted our coffee.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Michaelis 1994
: 69
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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